East Carbon Utah

This will be a dash cam drive through the Carbon County, Utah, Corridor, starting at the old weigh in Price Canyon on US 6/191, and ending at East Carbon. We will go through the small cities of Helper, Price, Wellington and then to East Carbon. We will start traveling east on US 6/191 till we come to the junction with UT123 approximately 13 miles from the starting spot. We will then turn left onto UT123 and travel approximately 11 miles to East Carbon and to the end of UT123. This will give you an idea of what each small city looks like. The first city we come to will be Helper, a small town established back in the late 1800’s by the DRGW railroad. Helper was created as a rail yard to house the many locomotives that were used as helper engines for the coal trains to get over the steep grade in Price Canyon to Soldier Summit. The second city will be Price, a diverse city being the County seat. This is the hub location for Castle Country and the coal industry. The third town be come to w...

    Where did all the local culture go? Gone to scrap yards everywhere, when will they ever learn? The song that this idiom comes from tells it all. Mans worst enemy to himself, be man himself. East Carbon, Utah is literally a town stuck at the end of a dead end road. Not only is this true physically by location, but also philosophically too. People in the area around East Carbon tell me and my sister that we hate this town, but do we? Then real answer to this is no. What is hated is the secular ignorance of a town under the authority of a select minority with absolutely no directional ideological future i.e., “a town going nowhere”. As with all towns in this part and other parts of Utah, the local culture and flavor has been decimated and retired to different scrap yards. Spring Canyon, and Hiawatha is an excellent example of this philosophy. What was once an entire, and I’ll reiterate, a complete mining camp (Hiawatha) from a long lost era, with infrastructure like buildings...